Minooka softball has last laugh over SPC class

Published: Friday, July 12, 2013 2:32 p.m. CST

While Plainfield Central’s softball team may have won the Southwest Prairie Conference this past spring, the last laugh belonged to the Minooka Indians. Minooka was able to bounce back from a fourth-place SPC finish, in the process leaping past the Wildcats in a Class 4A Sectional final, en route to its first state championship ever.

Still, the regular season SPC slate belonged to Central.

Minooka lost to Central 1-0 at the start of the season before rebounding for a 7-2 win late in the spring. Still, Central won the conference by finishing 11-3 while both Plainfield East and Plainfield South were both 10-4 and the Indians were a distant fourth with an 8-6 league mark.

The Indians did come back to beat Central 4-2 for the Lincoln-Way East Sectional championship, but the league season had been laid to rest by then.

Brittany Warnecke of Oswego East was named the SPC MVP for her performance for the Wolves this year as a senior. She was the only pick for East this season.